None of the “doomsday” scenarios anticipated under current administration really came to fruition

Ideas for way forward/continued efforts:

Development of a “risk factor” matrix/analysis to evaluate levels of risk to different facilities and types of data

Rama says this has been done already for the NASA DAACs (sometime in 2012)

Risk Assessment Code (RAC) matrices are used to indicate what level of risk exists for data loss vs what the impact on users is. For each DAAC, the number of datasets that fall in the different cells of a 5 by 5 matrix are recorded. Risk of loss is lower when datasets are backed up robustly at remote sites, and user impacts are lower when post-loss recovery times are lower.

The RAC matrices are periodically updated.

But, changes in political activity wasn’t one of the types of risk evaluated

Matt will spearhead development of an ESIP risk matrix/analysis going forward

Identification of what datasets are associated with what risk factors

A lot of the data rescue groups would like a catalog or inventory of some sort that might help them direct their efforts

Non-trivial to assemble such a list, but would be worth it since data rescue groups bring a lot of energy and enthusiasm and could use some direction toward the most “at risk” data

Sophie: Important to distinguish between “soft” loss and “hard” loss, i.e., does the “at risk” data just become harder to access/hidden from obvious view, or was was it truly deleted/taken off the Internet/lost

Currently unresolved: Where to put “rescued” data?

Temporarily?

Permanently?

A directory/catalog could help with this

Question: Has the use of torrents been explored for storage of these datasets?

Referred questioner to the keynote talk by Matt Zumwalt

Ge Peng presented on the status of the maturity matrix
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Service-level matrix is currently under development

Last phase in Science → Product → Stewardship → Service continuum)

Peng is looking for input on the Service maturity matrix

DS Committee members should get in touch with her

Question: What are “Service” activities?

Service = use by external community and user-level services

Examples: Data discovery, data access

Question: Is “Stewardship” appropriate as a name for the third phase?

Nancy H. presented on status of the DMT Working Group/DMT Clearinghouse

Officially became a working group about 2 months ago

Two primary projects:

First project: DMT Clearinghouse

Launched in October 2016

Currently being shopped around to various organizations and users

Beta testing of user interface

Seeking to better identify target audience(s), better identify what types of resources will end up in the clearinghouse catalog

Some trainers have expressed interested in MOOCs, syllabi, templates, and more video

Crowdsourcing alone doesn’t necessarily seem to be sufficient to gather a “critical mass” of resources for the clearinghouse

Will undertake an effort to seek out existing resources on the Internet and add them (with permission from content owners/creators)

Links/tie-ins to virtual educational environments?

Possible collaboration with IU

Some possible sources of funding/sustainment?

Science Gateways

Collaboration w/IU on IMLS proposal call (2 pages)

Both of these will require development of a strategic plan for the working group

Nancy is looking for DS Committee input

Need to think about governance

Advisory committee?

Belmont Forum

Second project: Working within/outside of ESIP to define core skills/competencies for data management professionals